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Wing ad. 369-396 mm. ; tail 190-215 mm. ; 
head, neck, throat and breast white with 
distinct blackish brown shaft-stripes, nar- 
rowest and blackest in old birds; rest of 
plumage maroon chestnut, paler on tail, 
which is whitish at tip ; primaries brownish 
black ; bill yellowish, the base blackish ; 
feet light greenish yellow. 
*238a. Haliastuy indus intermedius Gurney and _ Indo-Chinese 
Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 28. [Java.] Provinces, 
Malay Brahminy Kite. Malay Pen., 
Sunday ise 
Wing ¢ 375-398, 2 405-425 mm. ; tail 215 Philippine Is., 
mm.; the black shaft-streaks on head, Babber I. 
hind neck and breast reduced to hair-lines 
and much less distinct. 
+*238b. Haliastur indus leucosternus (Gould), Australia, 
P.Z.S., 1837, p. 138. [Australia =Moreton New Guinea, 
Bay, Queensl., apud Math., type in Philad. Moluccas, 
Acad. | Tenimber, 
White-headed ‘‘ Sea-Eagle.”’ Ceram, Aru Is., 
[ =H. 1. girrenera (Vieill. et Oud.)] Celebes,+ 
Solomon Is., 
Size similar ; wing $ 360-375, 2 387 mm.; New Britain. 
head, neck, interscapulary region and 
throat and breast snowy white without any 
sign of black streaks; rest of plumage 
bright maroon ; tail with a broad terminal 
bar of white; cere and bill pale yellow, 
latter darker at tip and bluish at base ; 
feet whitish yellow. 
+*239. Haliastur sphenurus sphenurus (Vieill.). N. Australia ; 
Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xx., p. 564 (1818). New Guinea. 
[“ Australia”? =N.S. Wales, apud Math., 
type in Paris Mus. ] 
Whistling Eagle. 
1 Celebes examples approach intermedius, showing a few faint indications of 
shaft-lines on chest, but in size agree with leucosternus. 
